See original Neolithic and Bronze Age pottery, handle museum replicas and, using the same tools and techniques as prehistoric potters, create a clay model to take home.
Workshop at a Glance
Level: 1st to 6th Class
Group size: 30 students max
Duration: 75 mins
Location: Prehistoric Ireland Exhibition, Ground Floor and Learning Resource Room, First Floor
Days available: Thursdays during term time
Time available: 10:30am
Accessibility: This workshop is not wheelchair accessible
Curriculum Links
- SESE History, Working as an Historian Time and Chronology / Using Evidence / Change and Continuity / Cause and Effect / Synthesis and Communication / Empathy
- Early People and Ancient Societies, Stone Age Peoples / Bronze Age Peoples
- Story, Stories from the lives of the people in the past
- Continuity and Change Over Time, Homes, House and Urban Developments / Food and Farming / Literature, Arts, Crafts and Culture
- English, Receptiveness to Language / Competence and Confidence in using Language
- Visual Arts, Concepts / An awareness of shape/form / Pattern and Rhythm / Developing form in Clay / Looking and responding
Learning Outcomes
- See real artefacts from the Stone Age and Bronze Age in Ireland
- Learn how people in Stone and Bronze Age Ireland developed skills and used the raw materials available to them to survive
- Learn about the construction, decorating and firing of prehistoric pottery
- Track the development of pottery from the Stone Age into the Bronze Age
- Handle museum standard replicas of Stone and Bronze Age pottery
- Use the skills which you have learned about to recreate your own prehistoric pot